For our midterm, I think we should be allowed to choose our own topic to write about on the short essay. And we can either have the work of literature already chosen for us, or decide to choose one of the works of literature we have read this semester ourselves.
I think this kind of open-ended and flexible essay would provide students with the opportunity to express their own thoughts and feelings on a certain topic in a work of literature without feeling constrained to any particular subject matter.
